The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.

Success is a journey of transformations.

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."— Picabo Street

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.

I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.